CEAS Film Series

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Posted : September 13, 2013

The Man Who Stole the Sun (Taiyo o nusunda otoko) Directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko, 1979 (16mm, 147 min., English Subtitles)A lonely teacher builds a Bomb and takes on the State in a superb thriller. Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information ...

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Thirty Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan Directed by Yamagami Chieko, Seyama Noriko (2004, Documentary, 57 min.) Special Film Screening and Panel DiscussionParticipants include: Yamagami Chieko - Film Director Seyama Noriko - Film Director Akiyama Yoko - Professor of Chinese Studies, Surugadai University Miki Soko - Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Kyoto Seika University Karen Nakamura - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Christopher Gerteis - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University Chaired...

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Chungking Express (重慶森林, Chongqing sen lin) Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, 1994 (102 min)Acclaimed director Wong Kar-Wai presents a kinetic, offbeat look at the city of Hong Kong in these two stories that are loosely connected by a snack bar. The first concerns a young woman who has been double-crossed in a heroin deal and her possible romance with a lovelorn cop. The second deals with an officer who mopes around his apartment and the young waitress who tries to help him without his knowledge. Lacking a conventional plot, Chungking Express bursts with energy, gorgeous visuals, and charming...

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The Longest Summer (去年煙花特別多, Hui nin yin fa dak bit doh or Qu nian yan hua te bie duo)Directed by Fruit Chan, 1998 (128 minutes) As Fruit Chan’s second feature, The Longest Summer is a well-crafted drama about Hong Kong told through its most dubious citizens.The film centers on five middle-aged ex-soldiers ditched when the British garrison leaves Hong Kong prior to the 1997 handover. Their identity and allegiances left murky, the group sets about re-entering the workforce in a rapidly changing Hong Kong. Finding little steady employment, Ga Yin, a former member of the British Army, falls in...

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Leaving in Sorrow (憂憂愁愁的走了, You you chou chou de zou le) Directed by Vincent Chui, 2001 (90 min)Leaving in Sorrow is a gritty, realistic portrayal of Hong Kong in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis. It is the first Hong Kong production filmed in the Dogme 95 style using handheld cameras, natural lighting, and real locations. The film follows a disparate group of characters including a pastor, a magazine editor, and a slacker from San Francisco who find their lives suddenly turned upside down by events beyond their control. It is a story about movement and home, centering on...

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Typhoon Club (Taifu kurabu) Directed by Somai Shinji, 1985 (114 min, 16mm, English Subtitles) Somai Shinji’s masterful evocation of the stormy emotions of adolescence.Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information 20050929falljapanfilm_cinematicstrangers.pdf

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Special Japanese Film ScreeningThe Living Koheiji (Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji) Directed by Nakagawa Nobuo (1982, 16mm, 78 min.) The last, eerie ghost movie from Japan’s master of the classic horror film. (English Subtitles) Prints Courtesy of the Japan Foundation

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Comrades, Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜, Tian mi mi)Directed by Peter Chan Ho-Sun, 1996 (118 min)Destiny brings two people together, but they aren’t sure if they’re meant to be friends or lovers in this romantic comedy-drama. A pair of Chinese mainlanders, new to Hong Kong, find the city overwhelming and gradually fall in love with each other over the period of a decade. In 1986, Xiaojun arrives in Hong Kong from northern China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Chiao, who is from southern China, and they become friends as she...

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Aoyama Shinji Visit Pre-Events – Special Japan Film Screening: Japanese film director Aoyama Shinji will be visiting Yale in April 2005. In preparation of this important visit, the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to present special screenings of films by his favorite filmmakers: Twisted Path of Love (Koibitotachi wa nureta)Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro (Nikkatsu, 1973, 76 minutes, 35 mm, English subtitles)FOR ADULTS ONLY: A “Roman Porno” film about sex, violence, and cinema by one of Japan’s most celebrated filmmakers of the 1970s, Tatsumi Kumashiro. Prints...

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Aoyama’s Special Film ScreeningThe theatrical version of Aoyama’s episode from the ambitious Mike Hama detective series. Combining genre cinema with a rigorous critique of postwar Japanese society, Aoyama Shinji is one of the leading figures of contemporary Japanese culture, directing award-winning films such as Eureka (which the Los Angeles Times said “will become one of the landmarks of the world cinema of the first decade of the 21st century”), writing prize-winning novels, and becoming an intellectual force with his criticism and theory. Yale University is pleased to have Aoyama visit...

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Fantastic Realms in Japanese FilmGhost in the Shell (Kôkaku kidôtai)Direced by Oshii Mamoru, 1995 (82 min, English Subtitles) The animation that inspired the makers of The Matrix. A cyper-punk tour de force. Free and open to the public.

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The President’s Barber (Hyojadong Ibalsa, 2004, 116 min.) won for Director Im Chan-sang Im won the Best Director and Audience Awards at last year’s Tokyo Film Festival.

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Fantastic Realms in Japanese FilmThe Sinners of Hell (Jigoku)Directed by Nakagawa Nobuo, 1960 (101 min, English subtitles) A cult classic of Japanese horror movies, set in that most horrible of places. Free and open to the public.

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Aoyama’s Film ScreeningTo the Alley (Roji e, 2001, English subtitles). A documentary exploring the world of the novelist Nakagami Kenji using the film he left behind. Followed by a symposium with Prof. Eve Zimmerman of Wellesley College on the Novelist Nakagami Kenji, cosponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Combining genre cinema with a rigorous critique of postwar Japanese society, Aoyama Shinji is one of the leading figures of contemporary Japanese culture, directing award-winning films such as Eureka (which the Los Angeles Times said “will become one of...

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Aoyama’s Film ScreeningWiLd LIFe (1997, English subtitles). Aoyama’s third theatrical film about a punctilious ex-boxer in search of his missing boss. Combining genre cinema with a rigorous critique of postwar Japanese society, Aoyama Shinji is one of the leading figures of contemporary Japanese culture, directing award-winning films such as Eureka (which the Los Angeles Times said “will become one of the landmarks of the world cinema of the first decade of the 21st century”), writing prize-winning novels, and becoming an intellectual force with his criticism and theory. Yale University is...

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Aoyama’s Film ScreeningAoyama Shinji’s first theatrical film, Helpless (1996), will be screened on DVD for the seminar. Readings in Japanese Film Theory. For More Information 20050407springjapanfilm_aoyamabio.pdf Program

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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Match (Hibotan bakuto: Hanafuda shobu) Directed by Kato Tai, 1968 (98min, 35mm, English Subtitles) A chivalric yakuza battle the modern mob in Kato Tai’s aesthetic celebration of death. Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information ...

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Meike will present his film “The Glamorous Life of Hanai Sachiko (Hanai Sachiko no kare ina shogai” and engage in discussion afterwards. Hanai Sachiko, which will be featured in the Nippon Connections film festival in Germany in April, is a sly take on contemporary international politics with a Yale connection. The film will be shown on video without English subtitles, but a subtitle text will be distributed in photocopy form. “Pink films” are technically adult films in Japan, but given Japanese censorship codes, most would only get an R-17 in the USA. They have been extremely important in...

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Aoyama’s Film Screening Lakeside Murder Case(2005, English subtitles). Aoyama’s most recent film about entrance exams, a not-so-normal family, and a murder. Combining genre cinema with a rigorous critique of postwar Japanese society, Aoyama Shinji is one of the leading figures of contemporary Japanese culture, directing award-winning films such as Eureka (which the Los Angeles Times said “will become one of the landmarks of the world cinema of the first decade of the 21st century”), writing prize-winning novels, and becoming an intellectual force with his criticism and theory. Yale...

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